Ill Quotes
2328 quotes by 1535 authors
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for…
— Aristotle
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
— Alec Baldwin
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
— Albert Bandura
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I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.
— Roseanne Barr
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of…
— James Truslow Adams
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
— Joe Barton
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's…
— Annie Besant
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
— Aeschylus
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
— Aeschylus
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There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
— Aeschylus
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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a…
— Aeschylus
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
— William J. Brennan
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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